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- 1031: The Presidency of Gerald Rudolph Ford
- ... school aid, and increased appropriations for higher education. Two days after Spiro Agnew resigned on October 10,1973 President Nixon nominated Ford to succeed him under a provision of the 25th Amendment the U.S. constitution. After a thorough investigation, Ford was approved by both houses of Congress an sworn in as vice president on December 6. The Republican party was sagging under the weight of the Watergate scandal, and the ...
- 1032: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream for America
- ... have come to our nation's Capital to cash a check” (King, 1996, p. 358). A Capital is not a bank and therefore it cannot cash a check. Rev. King is comparing this to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He is attempting to persuade the audience with the promise that all men and women have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I feel this is ...
- 1033: Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
- ... which embodied some of his ideas on the natural rights of certain people. Jefferson then returned to Virginia, where as a member of its legislature (1776--79), he took the lead in creating a state constitution and then served as governor (1779--81); during this time he proposed that Virginia abolish the slave trade and assure religious freedom, but he did not achieve this. He was not very successful in organizing ...
- 1034: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... declared that forced segregation in public schools was "inherently unequal" and thus unconstitutional. The landmark decision overturned the court's 1896 Plessey v. Ferguson ruling that "separate but equal" educational institutions were allowable under the constitution. The ruling was quickly tested in September 1957 when Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas called in the national guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School. Eisenhower, despite little ...
- 1035: Nelson Mandela
- ... consistent adherence to the principle of non-racial democracy paid enormous dividends. It created a ground base of trust that enabled all political parties, black and white, to meet and to hammer out a transitional constitution. The end of apartheid led to a government of national unity far wider and more explicit than the attempts to heal political breaches made by previous South African presidents. South Africa then reached a turning ...
- 1036: Ignatius of Antioch
- ... of Rome, begging them not to prevent his martyrdom. In the year 107 he was given to the lions in the Coliseum. In his letters, he dealt deeply with the theology of Christ, with the constitution of the Church and with the Christian life. In all of them he showed his deep wisdom and love of God. "I am the wheat of God. I must be ground by the teeth of ...
- 1037: William Richardson Davie
- ... He favored election of senators and presidential electors by the legislature and insisted on counting slaves in determining representation. Though he left the convention on August 13, before its adjournment, Davie fought hard for the Constitution's ratification and took a prominent part in the North Carolina convention. The political and military realms were not the only ones in which Davie left his mark. The University of North Carolina, of which ...
- 1038: Abraham Lincoln
- ... the candidate for the Republican party. By the time he took the oath of office a new country was forming. No other president in history has ever been asked to “preserve, protect, and defend the constitution and nation” to the level that Lincoln was asked. Lincoln’s first inaugural address was one of conciliation and peace. He was an opponent of slavery. He felt that it was his duty to save ...
- 1039: Mohandas K. Gandhi: “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”
- ... marched to the Arabian Sea and made their own salt buy evaporating seawater. Sixty thousand people were put in prison. Gandhi began fasting when negotiations fell through. The government knew they had to change the constitution. They knew that if Gandhi died, they would have a revolution on their hands. In studying Mohandas Gandhi, I have developed a profound sense of respect and great admiration for this man. It is totally ...
- 1040: Important African American Figures
- ... that blacks would no longer be employed only as servants and laborers. He proposed that schools be established to train them to become skilled craftsmen. Douglass fought for passage of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution ratified in 1870, which gave blacks the right to vote. Later he saw that Southern blacks had returned to virtual slavery under a farming system called sharecropping. He urged that the federal government grant land ...
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